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C.J.: 'Visit' had new meaning after Colemans paid a call
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| Contributor | Eric |
| Last Edited | Eric Nov 17, 2003 03:27pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Star Tribune, The (Minneapolis - St. Paul) |
| News Date | Sunday, November 16, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | What a lovely couple Norm and Laurie make...
C.J.: 'Visit' had new meaning after Colemans paid a call
C.J., Star Tribune
'WCCO-TV's Pat Kessler got a rude awakening from Norm and Laurie Coleman ... Over video of the Colemans in their kitchen, Kessler said something like On this Saturday morning Laurie is visiting from California where she is working on a television series.
When the phone rang at 10:40something p.m. Kessler was asleep. The first words he heard were: This is Norm Coleman. (I am anxious to hear those words on my phone line, but despite a volley of phone calls starting at 8:44 a.m., no Colemans have gotten back to me.)
"I thought it was my brother playing a joke on me," said Kessler. ... he realized it was the real Coleman and began thinking how nice it was of Coleman to somehow get Pat's unpublished home phone number to say thanks for the profile.
That thought vanished quickly as Kessler began hearing "I have never been so outraged in my life! What you did to me and my family?" He yelled at me for a couple three minutes. I still didn't understand what this was about. I said, 'What's the matter? What are we talking about?' And he says, I'm going to give the phone to my wife," Kessler said Thursday.
"The first words out of her mouth are Visiting! Visiting! Visiting! I visit my in-laws. I don't visit my husband. I visit my friends, I don't visit my family. I vote here, I don't visit here. Those are all but direct quotes," said Kessler.
"She was just very upset because she thought it was, and she said this, a devious political shot, a way to embarrass her and her husband. A way to paint their marriage as something that it wasn't."
It's well known that Laurie is a model and actor who left Minnesota a while ago for California to work on her career.
"She said, I thought you were a progressive man. I'm am a working mom; this is what we do. She said she was going to take this story to the News Council. She demanded a public apology on the air, demanded an interview," said Kessler. Fully awake by now, "I told her this was not meant in a malicious way, that I'm shocked she would think it was and that it made me very sad. I told her I would call my bosses. We did offer them the opportunity to go on air and talk about . . . Laurie and Norm and about their arrangement where Laurie works in California. They never accepted our offer. They never returned the telephone call."
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